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on the mesopleune, more greyish behind. Ilalteres, stem pale, knob 

 brown. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters dull yellow, femora light brownish yel- 

 low with a rather broad subapical ring, tibiae light brown, the tip a 

 little darker ; tarsi brown. 



Wings slightly infuscated with four brown marks along the costal 

 region, the second at the origin of Rs. the third at the tip of Sc, the 

 fourth at the stigma ; pale greyish seams along the cord and along the 

 outer end of cell ist M2. Venation (see plate XJV, fig. 3) ; Sc long, end- 

 ing opposite or beyond the middle of Rs; Sc2 equal to Sci ; Rs rather 

 long, strongly arcuated at its origin. There is a supernumerary cross 

 vein in cell Sc between the base of the wing and the origin of the sec- 

 tor, such a condition being rather frequent in this genus. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, stermites much paler, yellowish. 



Holotype, 2 , Callanga, Peru. 



Paratype, 2 , Callanga, Peru. 



Types in the Hungarian National Museum. 



The paratype lacks the blackish median prsescutal vitta. 



G. nwmenius is allied to insignis Loew (i), but the antennal 

 flagellum is black, not brown ; thorax without three clear 

 opaque brownish black stripes, etc. 



Geranomyia cinereinota, sp. n. (PI. XIV, Fig. 4). 



Rostrum short ; thoracic notum grey with a well defined blackish 

 median stripe; femora uniform in color, wings subhyaline. 



Male, length (excluding rostrum), 5.1 mm.; wing, 6.8 mm.; rostrum, 

 1.8 mm. Female, length (excluding rostrum), 5.2 mm.; wing, 7 mm. 



Male. Proboscis short, scarcely extending beyond the wing basis, 

 dark brownish ; antennae dark brown ; head grey densely clothed with 

 long, black hairs. 



Cervical sclerites blackish with a little greyish bloom. Mesonotal 

 pr.vscutum grey with a broad brownish black median stripe, the sides 

 of the sclerite darkened, almost black, the ground color brightest in 

 front on either side of the median vitta, more suffused with brownish 

 behind; scutum, scutellum and postnotum light grey. Pleurae grey 

 suffused with darker. Halteres short, yellowish, the knob brown. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters yellowish, femora dull yellow, tibia? light 

 brown, tarsi brown. 



Wings subhyaline, iridescent, veins C, Sc and R more yellowish, re- 

 maining veins brown. Venation (see Plate XIV, fig. 4). 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, sternites dull yellowish. 



In the female the rostrum is even shorter, scarcely exceeding the 

 antennae in length. 



I. Loew, H. Linnaea Entomologica, vol. 5, p. 395, (1851). 



